The door many partners find hard to open

What comes next, when the work of a partner in a law firm or a professional services firm begins to lose appeal, and fails to generate enthusiasm – when the “R” word begins to swirl around in one’s consciousness?

For many partners, retirement is not an attractive prospect for a multitude of psychological and practical reasons:

stepping back from hard won relationships, carefully built expertise, and the associated status and recognition is difficult

downsizing a lifestyle that has usually been built around high partner remuneration: life without it seems hard to contemplat